 | Connecticut Historical Society - 1889 - 114 pàgines
...three general divisions: Doctrine: Reasons : Uses. (Or, as we should say, Applications.) Doctrine— i. That the choice of public magistrates, belongs unto the people, by God's own allowance. 2. The privilege of election, which belongs to the people, therefore, must not be exercised according... | |
 | Arria Sargent Huntington - 1891 - 164 pàgines
...active and hopeful community, and in 1636 a General Court was instituted. At that gathering Mr. Hooker maintained that " the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people." The Constitution then adopted by the freemen of the three towns was the " first known to history that... | |
 | Tryon Edwards - 1891 - 500 pàgines
...early as 1638, Mr. Hooker, in opening the session of the general court, in a sermon of wonderful power, maintained " that the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people," and in the following year, the freemen, assembled at Hartford, adopted a written constitution whkh... | |
 | 1893 - 506 pàgines
...nationally proclaimed and obtained in the republic under whose flag Hooker had lived during four years, — that "the foundation of authority [is] laid in the...magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance ;" that "they who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, have the right also to set the bounds... | |
 | Goldwin Smith - 1893 - 366 pàgines
...was not a fit government for church or state, was opposed the learned and revered Thomas Hooker, who maintained that " the foundation of authority is laid...the free consent of the people, that the choice of the public magistrates belongs to the people of God's own allowance, and that they who have the power... | |
 | Charles Borgeaud - 1894 - 200 pàgines
...Hartford by Hooker, one of the pastors, and the principal leader of the emigration, in which we read : " The choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance. " They who have the power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power also to set the... | |
 | Henry Clay Sheldon - 1894 - 466 pàgines
...propositions: "The foundation of authority is laid, firstly, in the free consent of the people. . . . The choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people, by God's own allowance. . . . They who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power also to set the... | |
 | 1895 - 1028 pàgines
...limitations" of the power of these magistrates ; and he employs language now become familiar, declaring that "the foundation of authority is laid in the free consent of the people.'' The work of Mr. Borgeaud is a valuable addition to the political literature of the United States. Like... | |
 | Zephaniah Swift Holbrook - 1895 - 68 pàgines
...May 31, 1638, Mr. Hooker preached a sermon before the General Court, and he held: — "Doctrine. I. That the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people by God's own allowance. "II. The privilege of election, which belongs to the people, therefore must not be exercised according... | |
 | Charles Borgeaud - 1895 - 388 pàgines
...emigration, developed the following theses in a sermon preserved to us by the notes of an auditor : — " That the choice of public magistrates belongs unto the people, by God's own allowances." " They who have the power to appoint officers and magistrates, have the right also to... | |
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They who have power to appoint officers and magistrates, it is in their power, also, to set the bounds and limitations of the... 
